Difference between curvaceous and curb
Definitions
adjective
- (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Examples
Six massive shapes wrapped in cling film rise from the floor: rotund, curvaceous, one shaped like a fennel bulb with an elegant slender neck, another like a Russian doll, yet another plumped and segmented like a swollen gourd.
The knife has a curvaceous handle with front and rear guards built into the full tang blade steel.
On the top floor, the dragon is in the air, with writhing translucent light-filled ceilings and walls curvaceously sculpted to make benches, cupboards and seats.
Definitions
noun
- a stock exchange in New York
Examples
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms.
A curb on foreign libel claimants using English courts in the hope of big payouts is also being considered.
Inflation needs to be curbed in Russia.
